Notes on Contributors
Pablo Ben is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. His dissertation focuses on the intersections of the daily life of the popular classes, male queer identity, and the state in late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century Buenos Aires. He is the author of several articles concerning the relationship between class, ethnicity, childhood, gender, and sexuality in Argentina.
Benjamin Cowan is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles. He researches the intersections of gender, sexuality, and twentieth-century state formation in the Americas. His dissertation will treat the relationships between sexuality, moral panic, and cold war authoritarianism in Latin America.
Ramón A. Gutiérrez is professor of history at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the history of kinship, gender, and sexuality in Latin America and the American Southwest. He is the author of When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1846 (1991), editor of Mexican Home Altars (1997), and coeditor of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage (1993), Festivals and Celebrations in American Ethnic Communities (1995), and Contested Eden: California before the Gold Rush (1998). He is currently working on a biography of Reies López Tijerina, one of the founders of the Chicano movement.
Víctor Manuel Macías-González is associate professor of history and director of the Institute for Latina/o and Latin American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. His research on the Mexican aristocracy and its cultural and social capital over the long nineteenth century (1750–1930) as well as on gender and masculinity has been published widely in English and Spanish. He has been consultant to exhibits at the Museo Nacional del Prado, the Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, and the National Immigration History Museum Initiative. His latest project is a study of the Mexican colony in Paris during the Belle Epoque. [End Page 517]
Brian T. McCormack received his Ph.D. in U.S. and borderlands history from the University of California, San Diego. He is currently completing a book on Franciscan and Jesuit evangelism and religious and gender violence along Mexico's northwestern colonial frontier.
Susana Peña is assistant professor of ethnic studies at Bowling Green State University. She is author of "Pájaration and Transculturation: Language and Meaning in Miami's Cuban American Gay Worlds," published in Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language (2004), and is completing a book entitled Oye Loca: The Making of Cuban American Gay Miami. She is a recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Sexuality Research Fellowship Program of the Social Science Research Council.
Zeb Tortorici is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at UCLA working on his dissertation entitled "Contra Natura: Sin, Crime, and the Regulation of Unnatural Sexuality in Colonial Mexico." He has published in the Journal of Ethnohistory, has essays in the forthcoming edited collections Ethnopornography and Queer Youth Cultures, and is currently coediting Centering Animals: Writing Animals into Latin American History with Martha Few.
